jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) (10/24/89)
I just bought a Progressive Peripherals 8 Meg RAM board I had populated with 2 megs worth of Toshiba 100 and 150ns RAMs (the board is made by ASDG, I believe.). Well, the 1st time, the board said 8 of the 1MBITX8 chips were bad, so I plunked down $150 to replace them. Then, the store tested the board, and the included test software said the chips were good. When I got the board home, in my Amiga 2000HD Rev. 4.5 motherboard, the thing gurud repeatedly, with things like Exec freeing memory already free, etc, and when I ran the memory test, it said one of the chips was bad. Can anyone help me with this problem? Are there any problems with Progressive Peripherals ProRAM 2000 boards and Rev 4.5 motherboards, are there any problems with the board in general, and can anyone recommend a good board in the same price range (up to $280 for an unpopulated 8 Meg board that uses 150ns or better 1 MegaBit RAM chips)...? -- | husc6!m2c!wpi!jdutka | "No matter how big a straw, you can't suck water up | | jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu | more than 34 feet." | | jdutka@wpi.bitnet | -A WPI PROFESSOR WHO WISHES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS | | John Dutka _________|_____________________________________________________|
sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) (10/26/89)
In article <4981@wpi.wpi.edu> jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) writes:
I just bought a Progressive Peripherals 8 Meg RAM board I had populated with 2
megs worth of Toshiba 100 and 150ns RAMs (the board is made by ASDG, I
believe.)....
Are there any problems with Progressive Peripherals ProRAM
2000 boards and Rev 4.5 motherboards, are there any problems with the board in
general,...
If PP's 8 MB RAM board is an ASDG board, then yes there are lots of
problems.
I also owned an 8 MB RAM board from ASDG. When I upgraded my machine
to Fat Agnus, I got many guru errors when attempting to write data to
my hard disk (I have a Pacific Peripherals Overdrive hardcard).
Setting Mask and MaxTransfer parameters in the mountlist for the disk
drive partitions failed to fix the problem.
At the Memory Location dealership, they tried installing every other
kind of 8 MB RAM board they had in the store--Commodore's, Supra's,
etc. With any of these RAM boards, the Overdrive hardcard worked
flawlessly. Only with the ASDG RAM board did I get guru errors on
writing to the Overdrive hardcard.
In the end, I was forced to replace the ASDG RAM board with some other
board (I bought a Supra), and have had no problems since. (BTW, the
ASDG RAM board is for sale; any takers?)
Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
(617)271-7753
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Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
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Bedford, MA 01730
(617)271-7753
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-- J. Nicholsonrickf@pnet02.gryphon.com (Rick Flower) (10/26/89)
Well, I passed up getting one of those boards (at the time, I think it was either going for $169 or $199 unpopulated) for the ASDG 8MI board with 0k installed.. I went out and purchased 4megs of 100ns ram and installed it and ran the extensive tests on it overnight and it's worked flawlessly from day 1!!! I'd highly recommend anything that ASDG makes! Oh yeah, the price that I paid for the ASDG 8MI w/o ram was $215 if I recall... +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Caution, 68k Assembly Language Programmer at Play! | | Support S.A.N.E. (Snails Against Nuclear Energy) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | UUCP: {ames!elroy, <backbone>}!gryphon!pnet02!rickf | | InterNet: rickf@pnet02.gryphon.com | +=============================================================================+